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God on Broadway: Revealing the Sacred in the Spectacle
God on Broadway explores the theological questions cracked open by commercial theatre. It shows how the Great White Way--that apex of consumerism and a synonym for the business of spectacle--can be a place for theophany and critical reflection on religion. Looking for God "on Broadway" is a way of doing theology, a method for talking about God.
$39.00
Available September 23, 2025
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Under the Shade Tree: Reading the Bible in Africa
Under the Shade Tree investigates how the Bible was and is read in Africa and by Africans. It proposes a synthesis that resists the way the Bible is used in Africa to support forms of deception and fraud. It argues for critical study of the Bible, not only for biblical scholarship, but also for ordinary people's reading of the Bible.
$39.00
Available September 23, 2025
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A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God
This book demonstrates that Jesus's rejection of violence and emphasis on peacemaking were central to the eschatological nature of his ministry of proclaiming and inaugurating the kingdom of God. To follow Jesus's teaching and example is to completely disassociate violence from the character of both the kingdom and all who belong to it.
$36.00
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Early High Christology: John among the New Testament Writers
Over the past forty years, scholarship on John's Gospel has explored its theological vision and literary coherence. Marianne Meye Thompson's scholarship has contributed richly to this field of study. Here, some of today's top scholars advance our understanding of the Fourth Gospel by studying its relationships to other biblical texts.
$55.00
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What Are Drugs For?: An Exploration of Stolen Fire
What Are Drugs For? excavates the religious and social histories of humanity's relationships with drugs, showing how they have shaped religions, societies, and notions of the good life. Drugs are tools for human flourishing, but are best known for their powers of destruction. What Are Drugs For? is about what makes the difference.
$28.00
Available September 30, 2025
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God on Trial: Testing for the Divine
How do we know if God is benevolent? Can we trust God, or is our faith finally in vain? Noted philosopher Paul Moser takes up this concern with a rigorous and persuasive argument that God is constantly seeking to vindicate divine goodness and to self-manifest God's divinity as perfect goodness to humans.
$39.00
Available September 30, 2025
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Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature
Reading the Margins engages with literature to offer a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and the call to feed the hungry from aspirational fiction and poetry.
$36.00
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Christianity and Transforming States: Mapping Varied Christian Experiences and Responses
Christians can be both victims and victimizers, and herein lies this volume's unique contribution. Offering a two-sided approach, this book examines what it means to live as a Christian minority both in non-Christian societies, and in societies where other forms of Christianity are dominant.
$49.00
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Healing the Wounds of the Displaced: Pastoral Ministry in Immigrant Churches
This book invites readers into a new model of ministry on the margins. Zamora brings lived experience and a pastoral heart to bear in this unique window into the stress, trauma -- and gifts -- of undocumented immigrant communities. He integrates theology, psychology, and practical approaches to develop a new ecclesiology for the immigrant church.
$25.00
Available October 7, 2025
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White Supremacy through Black Eyes: Human Dignity, Defacement, and the Grace of Racial Healing
Mitchell weaves personal experience with incisive analysis to develop a theological exposition of human dignity, its defacement, the toxic ideology of racial superiority that erects such harsh impediments to racial reconciliation, and the conditions necessary before a new beginning for race relations might take shape.
$35.00
Available October 7, 2025
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Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament
The address in 2 John 1 to "an elect lady" has long puzzled commentators and so is widely held to be a metaphorical personification for a Christian church. This study demonstrates that the Greek text underlying the address has been corrupted, and that the letter is actually addressed to a named woman.
$48.00
Available November 11, 2025
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Climate Justice, Climate Hope
Fruitful, faithful action toward climate justice creates more ecological, equitable, democratic forms of economic life. With stories, liturgies, humor, and straight talk, Malcom and mohaupt invite readers to build knowledge, skills, global companionship, and spiritual courage for action at the intersection of climate, economy, and racial justice.
$29.00
Available October 14, 2025
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Divine Ecosystem: A Quaker Theology
Randazzo's theological narrative of liberal Quakerism creates clarity and structure without compromising the capacious breadth and depth of this distinctive tradition. Using the metaphors of an ecosystem, Randazzo helps readers understand the richness of Quaker theology while offering space for the myriad ways Friends experience the sacred.
$47.00
Available October 14, 2025
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Michael Amaladoss and the Quest for Indian Theology
Michael Amaladoss is one of the most important Indian-born theologians in twentieth-century Roman Catholicism, yet no scholarly monograph has been devoted to his work. This book is a contribution to an ongoing assessment of his thought and an investigation of his main theological concerns.
$36.00
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A History of Christian Psalmody: From the Pauline Mission to the End of the Fifth Century
A History of Christian Psalmody traces history of Christian psalm-singing during the church's first five centuries. It describes the formats, melodic character, and uses of psalmody in a wide range of settings, including personal and domestic devotion, church liturgy, monastic life, and public ecclesial events such as processions.
$54.00
Available October 21, 2025
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Working for the Public Good: Lutheran Ethics and Modern Social Democracy
Despite critiques of quietism, European Lutherans fostered social ethics that produced systemic, structural changes in social services, law, education, health care, states and nations, and public morality and eventually led to the welfare state. Grounded in faith active in love for the neighbor, Lutherans transformed northern Europe.
$55.00
Available October 21, 2025
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Heresy in the Middle Ages: A History of Authority and Exclusion
Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relationships between the medieval church and the growing number of heretical groups, highlighting where they were motivated by overlapping concerns such as a zeal to live the apostolic life.
$45.00
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Desirable Belief: A Theology of Eros
This book offers an analysis of erotic love in the Bible, patristic theology, mystical writings, philosophy, and literature. Eschewing hyper-conservative shaming of lust and overly optimistic views of eros as sacred and liberating, the book demonstrates how eros illuminates core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ, the afterlife, and the Trinity.
$45.00
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Unspoiled Endings: Reclaiming the Book of Revelation from Misuse and Neglect
Unspoiled Endings offers a historical, literary, and theological reading that explains how and why Revelation relates to the life of faith. It serves as a corrective to understandings of Revelation shaped more by the Left Behind series than by the book itself, and as an invitation to those who would otherwise never think to read or study the book.
$35.00
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Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation
Kabbalah as Literature celebrates the mysterious complexity of the Kabbalah while demonstrating its inherent intertextual comprehensibility. In an age of algorithms that limit social interaction, this book offers a literary-theological worldview that champions an interplay of perspectives and promotes a true exchange of ideas.
$45.00
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